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1AC – SV

Part 1: Framework

The Role of the Judge is to be a critical educator and policymaker focusing on the liberation of the oppressed

Giroux 06 ~Henry Giroux, American scholar and cultural critic, "America on the Edge: Henry Giro ux on Politics, Culture, and Education," Springer, March 31, 2006~ JW
Educators at all levels need to challenge the assumption that politics is dead, or
AND
that severely limit the creative, ethical, and liberatory potential of education.

The Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best policy to liberate oppressed groups

Debate should deal with questions of real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression

^{Curry 14 ~Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy @ Texas AandM, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century," 2014~
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
AND
economic structures which necessitate tangible policies and reorienting changes in our value orientations.} 

Structural violence outweighs. We must listen to the voices of the oppressed.

Winter and Leighton 99 (Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5, 1999)

Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about how and why we tolerate it, questions which often have painful answers for the privileged elite who unconsciously support it. A final question of this section is how and why we allow ourselves to be so oblivious to structural violence. Susan Opotow offers an intriguing set of answers, in her article Social Injustice. She argues that our normal perceptual/cognitive processes divide people into in-groups and out-groups. Those outside our group lie outside our scope of justice. Injustice that would be instantaneously confronted if it occurred to someone we love or know is barely noticed if it occurs to strangers or those who are invisible or irrelevant. We do not seem to be able to open our minds and our hearts to everyone, so we draw conceptual lines between those who are in and out of our moral circle. Those who fall outside are morally excluded, and become either invisible, or demeaned in some way so that we do not have to acknowledge the injustice they suffer. Moral exclusion is a human failing, but Opotow argues convincingly that it is an outcome of everyday social cognition. To reduce its nefarious effects, we must be vigilant in noticing and listening to oppressed, invisible, outsiders. Inclusionary thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. Like Opotow, all the authors in this section point out that structural violence is not inevitable if we become aware of its operation, and build systematic ways to mitigate its effects. Learning about structural violence may be discouraging, overwhelming, or maddening, but these papers encourage us to step beyond guilt and anger, and begin to think about how to reduce structural violence. All the authors in this section note that the same structures (such as global communication and normal social cognition) which feed structural violence, can also be used to empower citizens to reduce it. 

====The nuclearization of society enforces an epistemologically bankrupt mode of thinking in place of traditional ways of indigenous people. ====
WISE 93 ~World Information Service on Energy, founded in 1978, "Special: Environmental Racism and Nuclear Development," Nuclear Monitor Issue: ~#387-388, The WISE-Amsterdam Collective, March 1993~ JW
Racism, by itself, is a symptom of the deep sickness at the heart
AND
of vision that come from those who see from a different vantage point."

Part 2: Criticism

Subpoint A) Environmental racism

Every aspect of nuclear production overlaps and impedes upon Native Americans

Matsunaga 14 ~Kyoko Matsunaga, Associate Professor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, "Leslie Marmon Silko and Nuclear Dissent in the American Southwest," The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 25, 2014~ JW
The politics and rhetoric of the Cold War—of which the Vietnam War was
AND
by the "preexisting settler discourse about desert lands as barren wastelands."6

And to add insult to injury, Native Americans don't receive proper compensation for damages

Kyne and Bolin 7/12 ~Dean Kyne, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Bob Bolin, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, "Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 12, 2016~ JW
The "uranium frenzy" began in the West in the 1940s as the U
AND
for downwind and mining victims to receive benefits for their illnesses ~75~.

Subpoint B) Cultural Genocide

The health and ecological effects on indigenous populations is tantamount to cultural genocide

Ryser et al 3/27 1 ~Rudolph C. Ryser, Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar, "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud," Truth-Out, March 27, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ JW
Medical, genetic and social researchers have attempted to understand the complex public health effects
AND
, parts of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Yakama.

Subpoint C) Nuclear colonial discourse

Discourse about native lands as wastelands permits nuclear colonialism

Endres 09 1 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "From wasteland to waste site: the role of discourse in nuclear power's environmental injustices," Local Environment Vol. 14, No. 10, November 2009, 917–937~ JW
Wasteland, like most words, is polysemous. In common parlance, wasteland is
AND
land being turned into a wasteland from toxic pollution (LaDuke 1999).9

The 1AC is a direct challenge to this colonial discourse. We recognize that these lands have spiritual and cultural value to indigenous populations. Our affirmation of the resolution is our method to rectify this historic abuse and challenge traditional discourse that justifies cultural destruction.

Plan text: Native American tribal governments in conjunction with the USFG will ban the production of nuclear power near Native American lands.

Part 3: Solvency

1. Conjunction with the federal government is key. There are nuclear activities near indigenous lands that negatively affect tribes but fall outside their jurisdiction

Tsosie 15 2 ~Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, Arizona State University, "Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands," Santa Clara Journal of International Law Vol 13 Issue 1, April 2, 2015~ JW
Second, U.S. public lands policy governs federal lands adjacent to the
AND
both.115 The Havasupai Tribe is still heavily invested in this issue.

2. Any amount of radiation is dangerous. Means a ban of all nuclear power is the only way to solve.

Ryser et al 2 ~Rudolph C. Ryser, Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar, "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud," Truth-Out, March 27, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ JW
Radioactive substances carry uniquely dangerous characteristics compared to other toxins made by human industry.
AND
of potential increased cancer risk — particularly from disposed spent radioactive fuel rods.

3. Exercising Native American sovereign power is uniquely key to addressing the historical legacy of nuclear colonialism

Tsosie 3 ~Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, Arizona State University, "Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands," Santa Clara Journal of International Law Vol 13 Issue 1, April 2, 2015~ JW
The exercise of self-determination is necessary to redress the legacy of the 19th
AND
this with a practice of "genocide" against the Navajo people.16

4. The aff is part of a larger resistance to nuclear colonialism.

Endres 3 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,6:1,39 — 60, 2009~
American Indian resistance is an important part of the story of nuclear colonialism. Despite
AND
also intersects with sovereignty, nuclearism and colonialism, to which I now turn

Part 4: Underview

1. Aff gets RVI's on theory

a) It's key to reciprocity since neg will kick theory if I answer it
b) Checks frivolous theory by punishing bad theory
c) It's logical: you should lose for needlessly calling me a cheater 

2. If they win offense under a T interp, you should re-evaluate the 1AC as a whole res aff:

a) allows us to return to substance and prevents the round from devolving to theory
b) solves all the abuse on their shell 

3. Abstract critique is useless unless it offers a concrete policy alternative that can solve for the harms

Bryant 12 bracketed for grammar
~Levi Bryant, prof of philosophy at Collins college, "Critique of the Academic Left," http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/~~
The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction
AND
. Instead we prefer to shout and denounce. Good luck with that.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart LM | Judge: John Overing

1AC – SV

All brackets for offensive language 

Part 1: Framework

The Role of the Judge is to be a critical educator focusing on the liberation of the oppressed

Giroux 06 ~Henry Giroux, American scholar and cultural critic, "America on the Edge: Henry Giro ux on Politics, Culture, and Education," Springer, March 31, 2006~ JW
Educators at all levels need to challenge the assumption that politics is dead, or
AND
that severely limit the creative, ethical, and liberatory potential of education.

The Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best methodology to liberate oppressed groups

Debate should deal with questions of real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression

^{Curry 14 ~Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy @ Texas AandM, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century," 2014~
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
AND
economic structures which necessitate tangible policies and reorienting changes in our value orientations.} 

Structural violence outweighs. We must listen to the voices of the oppressed.

Winter and Leighton 99 (Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5, 1999)

Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about how and why we tolerate it, questions which often have painful answers for the privileged elite who unconsciously support it. A final question of this section is how and why we allow ourselves to be so oblivious to structural violence. Susan Opotow offers an intriguing set of answers, in her article Social Injustice. She argues that our normal perceptual/cognitive processes divide people into in-groups and out-groups. Those outside our group lie outside our scope of justice. Injustice that would be instantaneously confronted if it occurred to someone we love or know is barely noticed if it occurs to strangers or those who are invisible or irrelevant. We do not seem to be able to open our minds and our hearts to everyone, so we draw conceptual lines between those who are in and out of our moral circle. Those who fall outside are morally excluded, and become either invisible, or demeaned in some way so that we do not have to acknowledge the injustice they suffer. Moral exclusion is a human failing, but Opotow argues convincingly that it is an outcome of everyday social cognition. To reduce its nefarious effects, we must be vigilant in noticing and listening to oppressed, invisible, outsiders. Inclusionary thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. Like Opotow, all the authors in this section point out that structural violence is not inevitable if we become aware of its operation, and build systematic ways to mitigate its effects. Learning about structural violence may be discouraging, overwhelming, or maddening, but these papers encourage us to step beyond guilt and anger, and begin to think about how to reduce structural violence. All the authors in this section note that the same structures (such as global communication and normal social cognition) which feed structural violence, can also be used to empower citizens to reduce it. 

====The nuclearization of society enforces an epistemologically bankrupt mode of thinking in place of traditional ways of indigenous people. ====
WISE 93 ~World Information Service on Energy, founded in 1978, "Special: Environmental Racism and Nuclear Development," Nuclear Monitor Issue: ~#387-388, The WISE-Amsterdam Collective, March 1993~ JW
Racism, by itself, is a symptom of the deep sickness at the heart
AND
of vision that come from those who see from a different vantage point."

Part 2: Criticism

Subpoint A) Environmental racism

Every aspect of nuclear production overlaps and impedes upon Native Americans

Matsunaga 14 ~Kyoko Matsunaga, Associate Professor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, "Leslie Marmon Silko and Nuclear Dissent in the American Southwest," The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 25, 2014~ JW
The politics and rhetoric of the Cold War—of which the Vietnam War was
AND
by the "preexisting settler discourse about desert lands as barren wastelands."6

And to add insult to injury, Native Americans don't receive proper compensation for damages

Kyne and Bolin 7/12 ~Dean Kyne, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Bob Bolin, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, "Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 12, 2016~ JW
The "uranium frenzy" began in the West in the 1940s as the U
AND
for downwind and mining victims to receive benefits for their illnesses ~75~.

Subpoint B) Cultural Genocide

The health and ecological effects on indigenous populations is tantamount to cultural genocide

Ryser et al 3/27 1 ~Rudolph C. Ryser, Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar, "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud," Truth-Out, March 27, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ JW
Medical, genetic and social researchers have attempted to understand the complex public health effects
AND
, parts of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Yakama.

Subpoint C) Nuclear colonial discourse

Discourse about native lands as wastelands permits nuclear colonialism

Endres 09 1 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "From wasteland to waste site: the role of discourse in nuclear power's environmental injustices," Local Environment Vol. 14, No. 10, November 2009, 917–937~ JW
Wasteland, like most words, is polysemous. In common parlance, wasteland is
AND
land being turned into a wasteland from toxic pollution (LaDuke 1999).9

Wasteland discourse justifies terrible nuclear policies. It directly spills over into actual policies and harms

Endres 2 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "From wasteland to waste site: the role of discourse in nuclear power's environmental injustices," Local Environment Vol. 14, No. 10, November 2009, 917–937~ JW
The negative perception of the desert as wasteland has persisted to this day. The
AND
of wasteland as one of the justifications for HLW storage at those locations.

The 1AC is a direct challenge to this colonial discourse. We recognize that these lands have spiritual and cultural value to indigenous populations. Our affirmation of the resolution is our method to rectify this historic abuse and challenge traditional discourse that justifies cultural destruction.

Plan text: Native American tribal governments in conjunction with the USFG will ban the production of nuclear power near Native American lands.

Part 3: Solvency

1. Conjunction with the federal government is key. There are nuclear activities near indigenous lands that negatively affect tribes but fall outside their jurisdiction

Tsosie 15 1 ~Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, Arizona State University, "Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands," Santa Clara Journal of International Law Vol 13 Issue 1, April 2, 2015~ JW
Second, U.S. public lands policy governs federal lands adjacent to the
AND
both.115 The Havasupai Tribe is still heavily invested in this issue.

2. Any amount of radiation is dangerous. Means a ban of all nuclear power is the only way to solve.

Ryser et al 2 ~Rudolph C. Ryser, Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar, "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud," Truth-Out, March 27, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ JW
Radioactive substances carry uniquely dangerous characteristics compared to other toxins made by human industry.
AND
of potential increased cancer risk — particularly from disposed spent radioactive fuel rods.

3. Exercising Native American sovereign power is uniquely key to addressing the historical legacy of nuclear colonialism

Tsosie 2~Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, Arizona State University, "Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands," Santa Clara Journal of International Law Vol 13 Issue 1, April 2, 2015~ JW
The exercise of self-determination is necessary to redress the legacy of the 19th
AND
this with a practice of "genocide" against the Navajo people.16

4. The aff is part of a larger resistance to nuclear colonialism.

Endres 3 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,6:1,39 — 60, 2009~
~Native~ American Indian resistance is an important part of the story of nuclear
AND
also intersects with sovereignty, nuclearism and colonialism, to which I now turn

Part 4: Underview

1. Aff gets RVI's on theory

a) It's key to reciprocity since neg will kick theory if I answer it
b) Checks frivolous theory by punishing bad theory
c) It's logical: you should lose for needlessly calling me a cheater 

2. If they win offense under a T interp, you should re-evaluate the 1AC as a whole res aff:

a) allows us to return to substance and prevents the round from devolving to theory
b) solves all the abuse on their shell 

3. Reject low probability impacts. Existential risk calculus based on a series of unlikely events fails.

Kessler and Daase 08 ~Oliver Kessler and Christopher Daase, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Department of Political Science, University of Munich, "From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 33, No. 2, The Social Construction and Control of Danger in Counterterrorism (Apr.-June 2008), pp. 211-232~
The problem of the second method is that it is very difficult to "calculate
AND
prevail than in situations where security problems can be assessed with relative certainty. 

4. Abstract critique is useless unless it offers a concrete policy alternative that can solve for the harms

Bryant 12 bracketed for grammar
~Levi Bryant, prof of philosophy at Collins college, "Critique of the Academic Left," http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/~~
The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction
AND
drive people into the embrace of reigning ideology than to undermine reigning ideology.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough GK | Judge: Tim McHugh

1AC – SV

All brackets for offensive language 

Part 1: Framework

The Role of the Judge is to be a critical educator focusing on the liberation of the oppressed

Giroux 06 ~Henry Giroux, American scholar and cultural critic, "America on the Edge: Henry Giro ux on Politics, Culture, and Education," Springer, March 31, 2006~ JW
Educators at all levels need to challenge the assumption that politics is dead, or
AND
that severely limit the creative, ethical, and liberatory potential of education.

The Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best methodology to liberate oppressed groups

Debate should deal with questions of real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression

^{Curry 14 ~Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy @ Texas AandM, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century," 2014~
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
AND
economic structures which necessitate tangible policies and reorienting changes in our value orientations.} 

Structural violence outweighs. We must listen to the voices of the oppressed.

Winter and Leighton 99 (Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5, 1999)

Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about how and why we tolerate it, questions which often have painful answers for the privileged elite who unconsciously support it. A final question of this section is how and why we allow ourselves to be so oblivious to structural violence. Susan Opotow offers an intriguing set of answers, in her article Social Injustice. She argues that our normal perceptual/cognitive processes divide people into in-groups and out-groups. Those outside our group lie outside our scope of justice. Injustice that would be instantaneously confronted if it occurred to someone we love or know is barely noticed if it occurs to strangers or those who are invisible or irrelevant. We do not seem to be able to open our minds and our hearts to everyone, so we draw conceptual lines between those who are in and out of our moral circle. Those who fall outside are morally excluded, and become either invisible, or demeaned in some way so that we do not have to acknowledge the injustice they suffer. Moral exclusion is a human failing, but Opotow argues convincingly that it is an outcome of everyday social cognition. To reduce its nefarious effects, we must be vigilant in noticing and listening to oppressed, invisible, outsiders. Inclusionary thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. Like Opotow, all the authors in this section point out that structural violence is not inevitable if we become aware of its operation, and build systematic ways to mitigate its effects. Learning about structural violence may be discouraging, overwhelming, or maddening, but these papers encourage us to step beyond guilt and anger, and begin to think about how to reduce structural violence. All the authors in this section note that the same structures (such as global communication and normal social cognition) which feed structural violence, can also be used to empower citizens to reduce it. 

====The nuclearization of society enforces an epistemologically bankrupt mode of thinking in place of traditional ways of indigenous people. ====
WISE 93 ~World Information Service on Energy, founded in 1978, "Special: Environmental Racism and Nuclear Development," Nuclear Monitor Issue: ~#387-388, The WISE-Amsterdam Collective, March 1993~ JW
Racism, by itself, is a symptom of the deep sickness at the heart
AND
of vision that come from those who see from a different vantage point."

Part 2: Criticism

Subpoint A) Environmental racism

Every aspect of nuclear production overlaps and impedes upon Native Americans

Matsunaga 14 ~Kyoko Matsunaga, Associate Professor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, "Leslie Marmon Silko and Nuclear Dissent in the American Southwest," The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 25, 2014~ JW
The politics and rhetoric of the Cold War—of which the Vietnam War was
AND
by the "preexisting settler discourse about desert lands as barren wastelands."6

And to add insult to injury, Native Americans don't receive proper compensation for damages

Kyne and Bolin 7/12 ~Dean Kyne, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Bob Bolin, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, "Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 12, 2016~ JW
The "uranium frenzy" began in the West in the 1940s as the U
AND
for downwind and mining victims to receive benefits for their illnesses ~75~.

Subpoint B) Cultural Genocide

The health and ecological effects on indigenous populations is tantamount to cultural genocide

Ryser et al 3/27 1 ~Rudolph C. Ryser, Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar, "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud," Truth-Out, March 27, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ JW
Medical, genetic and social researchers have attempted to understand the complex public health effects
AND
, parts of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Yakama.

Subpoint C) Nuclear colonial discourse

Discourse about native lands as wastelands permits nuclear colonialism

Endres 09 1 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "From wasteland to waste site: the role of discourse in nuclear power's environmental injustices," Local Environment Vol. 14, No. 10, November 2009, 917–937~ JW
Wasteland, like most words, is polysemous. In common parlance, wasteland is
AND
land being turned into a wasteland from toxic pollution (LaDuke 1999).9

Wasteland discourse justifies terrible nuclear policies. It directly spills over into actual policies and harms

Endres 2 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "From wasteland to waste site: the role of discourse in nuclear power's environmental injustices," Local Environment Vol. 14, No. 10, November 2009, 917–937~ JW
The negative perception of the desert as wasteland has persisted to this day. The
AND
of wasteland as one of the justifications for HLW storage at those locations.

The 1AC is a direct challenge to this colonial discourse. We recognize that these lands have spiritual and cultural value to indigenous populations. Our affirmation of the resolution is our method to rectify this historic abuse and challenge traditional discourse that justifies cultural destruction.

Plan text: Native American tribal governments in conjunction with the USFG will ban the production of nuclear power near Native American lands.

Part 3: Solvency

1. Conjunction with the federal government is key. There are nuclear activities near indigenous lands that negatively affect tribes but fall outside their jurisdiction

Tsosie 15 2 ~Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, Arizona State University, "Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands," Santa Clara Journal of International Law Vol 13 Issue 1, April 2, 2015~ JW
Second, U.S. public lands policy governs federal lands adjacent to the
AND
both.115 The Havasupai Tribe is still heavily invested in this issue.

2. Any amount of radiation is dangerous. Means a ban of all nuclear power is the only way to solve.

Ryser et al 2 ~Rudolph C. Ryser, Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar, "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud," Truth-Out, March 27, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ JW
Radioactive substances carry uniquely dangerous characteristics compared to other toxins made by human industry.
AND
of potential increased cancer risk — particularly from disposed spent radioactive fuel rods.

3. Exercising Native American sovereign power is uniquely key to addressing the historical legacy of nuclear colonialism

Tsosie 3 ~Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, Arizona State University, "Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands," Santa Clara Journal of International Law Vol 13 Issue 1, April 2, 2015~ JW
The exercise of self-determination is necessary to redress the legacy of the 19th
AND
this with a practice of "genocide" against the Navajo people.16

4. The aff is part of a larger resistance to nuclear colonialism.

Endres 3 ~Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of communications @ University of Utah, "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,6:1,39 — 60, 2009~
~Native~ American Indian resistance is an important part of the story of nuclear
AND
also intersects with sovereignty, nuclearism and colonialism, to which I now turn

Part 4: Underview

1. Aff gets RVI's on theory

a) It's key to reciprocity since neg will kick theory if I answer it
b) Checks frivolous theory by punishing bad theory
c) It's logical: you should lose for needlessly calling me a cheater 

2. If they win offense under a T interp, you should re-evaluate the 1AC as a whole res aff:

a) allows us to return to substance and prevents the round from devolving to theory
b) solves all the abuse on their shell 

3. Reject low probability impacts.

Kessler and Daase 08 ~Oliver Kessler and Christopher Daase, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Department of Political Science, University of Munich, "From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 33, No. 2, The Social Construction and Control of Danger in Counterterrorism (Apr.-June 2008), pp. 211-232~
The problem of the second method is that it is very difficult to "calculate
AND
prevail than in situations where security problems can be assessed with relative certainty. 

4. Abstract critique is useless unless it offers a concrete policy alternative that can solve for the harms

Bryant 12 bracketed for grammar
~Levi Bryant, prof of philosophy at Collins college, "Critique of the Academic Left," http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/~~
The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction
AND
academic with a PhD in critical theory and post-structural theory can understand